Emma Wolfe is an American government official and advisor who served as

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for Administration and

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mayor

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Biography

Wolfe graduated from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

in 2001, majoring in

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and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

. After graduating from Barnard, she worked for

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and the healthcare union

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. From 2005 to 2009, Wolfe served as Organizing Director and then Election Campaigns Director for the

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state. She then joined Bill de Blasio's office and served as his Chief of Staff when he was

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from 2010 to 2012 and was as Political Director for de Blasio's mayoral campaign in 2013. In 2014, Wolfe became the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and then Chief of Staff in the Mayor's office in 2018. In March 2020, she was appointed by de Blasio to served as Chief of Staff and Deputy Mayor for Administration, where she oversaw the daily operations of the Mayor's executive office and coordinated the operations of a number of mayoral agencies. She was also second in the line for succession of the

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. She was called one of Bill de Blasio's most trusted aides and was called his "secret weapon" by ''

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''. As deputy mayor and chief of staff, Wolfe worked on priorities such as universal prekindergarten, COVID-19 response, and helped strike compromises between the mayor and

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. In January 2022, Wolfe joined Barnard College, her alma mater, as Senior Advisor to President

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. She is also a board member of the

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board.

Personal life

Wolfe hails from

Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. Alongside Cambridge, It is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of ...

and is of

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origin. Her mother, Kate Maguire, is an actress and CEO and Artistic Director of the Berkshire Theater Group, which organizes the annual

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. Wolfe is

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfe, Emma Living people Barnard College alumni Deputy mayors of New York City New York (state) Democrats Women in New York (state) politics Barnard College faculty American politicians of Greek descent People from Lowell, Massachusetts Year of birth missing (living people)